Arts of Love - Five Studies in the Discourse of Roman Love Elegy

Klappentext An examination of the love elegies of the Roman poets Tibullus! Propertius and Ovid. Zusammenfassung This book examines the love elegies of the Roman poets Tibullus! Propertius and Ovid from the point of view of the way the meanings attributed to the poems arise out of the interests and preoccupations of the cultural situation in which they are read. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Representation and the rhetoric of reality; 2. Getting down to essentials; 3. Love's figures and tropes; 4. A lover's discourse; 5. An irregular in love's army: the problems of identification; Footnotes; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Duncan F. Kennedy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.12.1992
• EAN: 9780521407670
• ISBN: 978-0-521-40767-0
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Roman Literature and Its Contexts; Roman Literature and Its Conte
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies